IBM i Cloud Backup
CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service solution is built to give you confidence that, in the event of an IT incident, your critical business data is always secure, recoverable and accessible.
To support your operational resilience strategy, our solution works seamlessly with IBM i environments, creating an off-site, immutable copy of all key data. Each backup is fully encrypted and replicated to a secondary data centre, ensuring end-to-end data protection, compliance and rapid recovery when it matters most.
Supported Platforms:
Immutable, Offsite Backup Architecture
CloudFirst’s IBM i backup solution is designed to provide maximum data protection, redundancy and compliance readiness through a layered, secure approach:
Encrypted, Offsite Replication
All backups are encrypted and replicated to a secondary data centre, ensuring data remains protected and geographically redundant.
Immutable Storage Protection
Backups are written to immutable storage, making them tamper-proof — data cannot be altered or deleted once written, defending against ransomware and insider threats.
Monthly Tape Archive for Redundancy
A monthly tape copy is stored at a separate, secure location to provide an additional layer of long-term archival protection and disaster recovery assurance.
Key Statistics
CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service solution delivers enhanced data protection, lower backup management costs and faster recovery times. Our platform is built to protect your critical data, minimise risk and ensure business continuity through a scalable and secure cloud backup infrastructure.
£5,600
per minute
The average cost of downtime for businesses.
96%
Of businesses will experience an unplanned outage within three years.
72%
Of enterprises are prioritising Backup as a Service (BUaaS) for data security and compliance.
Key Features
Immutable, Offsite Backup Architecture
CloudFirst’s backup architecture is designed to provide maximum data protection, redundancy and compliance readiness through a layered, secure approach:
Encrypted, Offsite Replication
All backups are encrypted and replicated to a secondary data centre, ensuring data remains protected and geographically redundant.
Immutable Storage Protection
Backups are written to immutable storage, making them tamper-proof — data cannot be altered or deleted once written, defending against ransomware and insider threats.
Monthly Tape Archive for Redundancy
A monthly tape copy is stored at a separate, secure location to provide an additional layer of long-term archival protection and disaster recovery assurance.
Automated Scalability & Pay-As-You-Grow Model
CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service is built with automated scalability, ensuring your storage capacity grows seamlessly alongside your data — without the need to forecast or overprovision.
Elastic Storage Capacity
Vault size automatically adjusts to match your data footprint, eliminating manual sizing and reducing operational overhead.
Cost-Efficient, Pay-As-You-Grow Pricing
Our fully transparent pricing model scales up or down with your usage, helping you avoid unnecessary expenses and optimise your cloud backup costs.
No Overprovisioning, No Guesswork
Say goodbye to upfront capital investment — CloudFirst’s model ensures you only pay for what you need, when you need it.
Client-Controlled Management Interface
Take full control of your backup environment with CloudFirst’s secure, self-service management interface, designed to empower your IT team with direct oversight and flexibility.
Self-Service Access
Perform scheduling, retention policy adjustments and file restores directly — no need to rely on a provider for routine backup tasks.
On-Demand Restores
Retrieve files instantly with self-service restore capabilities, reducing downtime and increasing operational autonomy.
Secure Access via CloudFirst Customer Portal
All functions are accessible through the CloudFirst Customer Portal, providing secure, role-based access control and centralised visibility into your backup operations.
SLA-Backed Performance & Availability
CloudFirst delivers guaranteed performance and availability through clearly defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring you have confidence in your backup and recovery environment.
Guaranteed Uptime, Access and Restore Speed
Our SLAs outline specific guarantees for system availability, data accessibility and recovery time objectives (RTOs), ensuring consistent, predictable performance.
Integrated with Disaster Recovery as a Service
SLA-backed protection is often included as part of our comprehensive solution, offering end-to-end resilience for mission-critical operations.
Customised to Your Business Needs
A discovery meeting is conducted to assess your business objectives and compliance requirements, allowing us to tailor SLAs to your unique risk tolerance and recovery expectations.
Break New Ground
Protect your business from data loss and downtime with CloudFirst’s enterprise-grade Backup as a Service, engineered for performance, resilience and end-to-end continuity.
High-Speed Enterprise Storage
Our solution leverages high-performance storage infrastructure to accelerate backup and recovery operations, reducing RTOs and improving availability.
Advanced Deduplication & Compression
Built-in deduplication and compression algorithms significantly reduce storage usage and optimise backup times, ensuring efficient data handling and lower costs.
Integrated with Disaster Recovery
CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service seamlessly integrates with our Disaster Recovery as a Service platform, delivering comprehensive data protection, business continuity and rapid recovery from any incident.
Benefits
Forward-Thinking Enterprises Choose Modern Backup as a Service.
Say goodbye to the costs, complexity and limitations of traditional tape backup systems.
Future-proof your data protection strategy with a cloud-native backup solution built for agility, compliance and peace of mind.
Immutable Protection
Defend against ransomware, malicious deletion and insider threats. Immutable backups stored in geographically isolated vaults ensure your data can’t be altered — only recovered.
Automated Scalability
As your workloads expand, our dynamic vaults intelligently scale to meet demand without performance bottlenecks or unexpected costs. Our platform is designed to enable your growth instantly.
Built-In Compliance
Full-spectrum encryption covers data in transit and at rest. Whether you’re aligning with ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA or other ISO standards, peace of mind is built in — and performance guaranteed.
What our clients say
"With CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service, we no longer worry about nightly backups or data recovery scenarios. The automated, encrypted backups and geo-redundant storage give us peace of mind, and their support team is always available when we need help. It’s like having a second IT department dedicated to protecting our IBM i systems."
— IT Director, Mid-Market Manufacturing Firm
"As a regional transportation provider, uptime and data reliability are non-negotiable. With CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service, we know our IBM i systems are protected around the clock. Their encrypted, offsite backups and responsive support team have been critical to maintaining operations during unexpected disruptions. CloudFirst gives us confidence that no matter what happens, our data — and our passengers — keep moving."
— CIO, Regional Transit & Logistics Company
"As a hotel group with properties spread across the region, ensuring reliable access to reservation systems and guest data is essential. CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service has been a game-changer. The automated, encrypted backups and geo-redundant storage mean we never worry about data loss. Their team is always responsive and proactive, giving us the confidence to focus on delivering a great guest experience without IT disruptions."
— Director of IT, Hospitality & Resort Management Group
By adopting CloudFirst’s Backup as a Service (BUaaS), organisations can modernise their data management strategies — ensuring data remains secure, easily accessible and protected against loss or disruption.